#vie

SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira. ↗

— Steven Jay Schneider

#movies

An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, [Of Mice and Men] will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists...Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen. [Time 1937] ↗

— Time-Life-Books

#men

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point. ↗

— Connie Willis

#moral #movies

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fashions #ideals #worldviews #zeitgeist #men

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped. ↗

— Luis Buñuel

#film #movies #rape #movies

As you know, madness is like gravity...all it takes is a little push. ↗

— The Joker - Heath Ledger

#movies

At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They will get for their money 34 pages of permanent value. These 34 pages tell of a massacre happening in a little Spanish town in the early days of the Civil War...Mr. Hemingway: please publish the massacre scene separately, and then forget For Whom the Bell Tolls; please leave stories of the Spanish Civil War to Malraux... ↗

— Commonweal

#money

[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless except as a way of earning its author some money and notoriety. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#money

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#reading #movies

There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again. ↗

— Caris O'Malley

#murder #writing #motivational